11.   A week later, only a few head of scraggly old dairy cows were on offer.

12.   An old cow wrapped her tail, loaded with manure and afterbirth, around my face.

13.   Most of the animals are old dairy cows that are no longer productive, and would have been slaughtered anyway.

14.   The infected animals were a six year-old cow from northern Italy and a four year-old cow from Oristano, Sardinia.

15.   The six-year old cow was discovered last week at a farm in northern Finland and was slaughtered after showing symptoms of the disease.